To Kill a Mockingbird Walk in someone else's shoes

Scout Finch

Jean-Louise Finch (Scout) is the narrator and protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird. At the beginning of the novel, she is 6 years old (she already can read…) and by the end of it she is 9 years old. Scout is an unusual girl that does not behave according to regular social norms: she behaves like a boy and does not value acceptable manners. She has a most developed sense of conscience, she admires her father Atticus even when she choose to rebel against him.

Jem Finch

Jem is a brave boy who seeks justice. He is in early adolescence. He admires his father, Atticus. Four years older than Scout, he remains her close companion and protector.

 His encounters with injustice, racism and discrimination are traumatic for him. However, he remains optimistic and believes in human goodness.

Aunt Alexandra

Alexandra is the sister of Atticus. Unlike her brother, she is a woman who represents the conservative social norms of the south, which causes her to confront Atticus and Scout. In her opinion, the way Atticus educates his children is wrong and could causes them social ostracism.

Calpurnia

Calpurnia is the African-American housekeeper and cook at the Finch residence. She in fact serves as a mother figure that helps raise Jem and Scout and teach them Atticus' values, even when she does not always agree with it.

Unlike most of her community she is an educated woman (teaches Scout to read and write).

Boo Radley

Boo (Arthur) Radley, One of Finch's family neighbors, is a young boy that shuts itself at home after his father abused him. His isolation makes Jem and Scout see him as a monstrous ghost, scary and attractive at the same time. His kindness and gentleness reveals only at the end of the novel, when he rescues Gem from the hands of Bob Joel.